Discover the authentic Portuguese chicken recipe.

The Portuguese-style chicken is a very simple recipe perfect for the BBQ season. It is a taste of summertime all year round and it is also very popular in the winter roasted in the oven.

2 tips to make this recipe a success:

First tip: the chicken is cut into 4 pieces or, better, in a crapaudine way: to prepare a "chicken Crapaudine", cut the chicken in 2 in the lengthwise and lay it flat on the grill of the oven or BBQ.

★ Ingrédients

• 1 chicken
• 4 Peeled tomatoes
• 4 Laurel leaves
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 1 glass of white wine
• 4 tablespoons of olive oil
• 1 teaspoon of paprika
• Piri Piri
• 2 onions
• Salt and pepper

★ Préparation

1. Peel the cloves of garlic and remove the sprouts, peel the onions
2. Put the peeled tomatoes, garlic and onions into a blender and mix to get a tomato coulis
3. Heat your olive oil in a saucepan with the laurel leaves, add tomato coulis, white wine, paprika, Piri Piri, salt and pepper. 
4. Reduce to half the volume to obtain a thick sauce
5. Cut both sides of the backbone with poultry shears and discard , flip it over and press down to flatten it as much as you possible.
6. Pour the sauce over the chicken 

★ Roasting

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Place chicken and marinade in a roasting pan. Roast in oven, basting occasionally with the marinade, for 40 minutes
2. Barbecue: Place the chicken on the grill over medium heat.  Close the lid and let it cook for about 10 minutes on each side or until it is well cooked

★ Little tips

Please find below all the sauces, marinades and ingredients that will allow you to directly make your Portuguese chicken and many other typical Portuguese sauces:

• Portuguese Piri Piri
• Soft Piri Piri 
• Piri Piri with lemon and herbs
• Special Chicken Pri Piri
• Piri Piri Cuhtney
• Piri Piri 
• Marinade
• Special marinade for Portuguese chicken